Sounding eeeeeee: Stretching phyto vibrancy beyond anthropology

“Go ahead, take your shoes off and walk toward the beach. This way head won't heat up along path.” Kai begins to walk. Sol had been wandering for months in a speculative postnatural expedition when she met him on littoral of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. They could see mountains horizon from accidented landscape. As they what Palomino village, planty growths burst light as pronounces seem be their names diverse Indigenous Spanish voices or tonalities, yet not only.1 Grandson three people women with tumbaga traits hardened by that wild inexpugnable maternity mountains, speaks serious serene expression. His fingers move, animated quasi-autonomous flying colors, weaving macramé butterflies yellow, green, purple waxed threads tying ancestral worlds well beyond vague thresholds, surpassing ephemeral asphalt roads, extractivist mining companies, anthropo-scenic 7G gibberish Colombian towns villages. looks young, also seems have no age interest knowing it would be. “Kogui Iku Nations disappeared, nor has Wayúu Nation Molilones Nation. thrive Nevada, Macuira Perijá mountain range do well, mountainous motifs entangled same mesh continuous growth.” Then he explains universes living creatures are sensors frequencies where world-becomings inscribe themselves subtle traces, variegated information piercing thought, buzzing triggering activity kind seismograph. *** The road meanders below River. slowly enter fresh current river, its vibrations tempos overtake them wavy manner. surrounding trees shudder lukewarm breeze bringing forth textility2 world made thought living. Taken river currents, feel an oceanic flux waves, circumvolutions, spirals—a fluid, ubiquitous exponentially multiple center is both everywhere nowhere, never pinned earth, neither menhir obelisk, always in-between ebb flow. Elemental powers assemble linear vision time, ancestralities actualities meet without losing momentum. perceives matrix forces, dressed artisanal wefts embroidered his sending back numbered tissue world's thought: sort cross sea waves (olas pensamiento), ever point breaking surf tap into potentials already there unfolding unsuspected new ways.3 explains: “The first arrive this were Wayúus. transformed clouds, rain, rock, plants, mountain, sun, stars, wind, balance imbalance. We Wayúus, clothing material means make us who we are. It eeeeeee, infinite, whole canvas makes There Koguis Motilones, sense eeeeeee territories.” continues (now oddly syntonized Sol's memory weft resonances, colored threads) all territories ancient cosmogonic languages, best pay earth name invigorate sensuous sonorities.4 remembers afar while canoeing down forgotten resonating . Nietzschean words float by: “It speak trees, snow, flowers; possess nothing but metaphors things—metaphors which correspond original entities at least derived essence things sum human relations poetically rhetorically intensified, transferred embellished some drained force.”5 New promising rhythms reach her during nth wave hitting North, water level lowest 70 years, speeds lessened reduction flows. With few remaining anthropologists, embark canoes downriver seeking ways teach/learn on, with, from, through watery pathways. air become too sterile university buildings, now making wasted horizons. “conservation” parks depleted, littered excess signs, restrictions, sprays used differentiate insects forests nevertheless fled city got stale. navigating cities offers solace. midsummer, glide calmly currents elderly woman appears distance. She sitting chair set sand low riverbed orange sunset watching over granddaughter playing water. “Where you going?” “To Paughan reservoir” (old hydro-electricity dam flooded small church farmlands early 1900s). “Ah, encore une trotte” (still ways)! Along journey, after being coldly unwelcomed approaching dock now-abandoned restaurant, under bridge pause near impressive boulders, climb get view downstream. majestic larch tree6 reaching high above skies easily sways windy conversation. “With Innu Nitassinan, I learned mix bear fat soothe restore skin irritation.” Surprised hear tangible possibility, lit recalling how chronic eczema calmed home began grow steadily imagination. “You went directly towards it!” “Akemantak” whispers, suddenly possessed revelation (Figure 1). returned arid lands friend started pilgrimage earth. sky far south like mirage, undulating steppe heat. Instead old open ranchería built bahareque7 trupillo8 shades hens goats jumping around, found wires electricity towers striating lands: infrastructure charcoal mine proximity. Even was if demiurgic hand taken away bed. A surviving trupillo side quivers racket remnant black dust. ecology erased around roots compressed cement, still there, immutable stone ancestor. Not even animal perched itself years embraces hears voice, uninterrupted “Be water, surround recompose effortlessly.” Kai's voice stems tree, gnarly mastery nonmastery9 teaching Wayúus let own thoughts flourish sand.10 Echoes vibrate learning basaa healer Africa11: becoming sand, larch, trupillo; riding elemental vegetal lines supple; tending suspension12 air. burning, plants love cheer cleansing power wind spread thrive, coinciding teachings maybe prospective anthropological ones, too. Storying might these attentional instead intentional, lateral rather than frontal, compos(t)ing phýein more generally come, improvising sonorous sensations,13 committing vital task proliferating meaningful foreseeable futures.